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Weekly News Digest
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March 28, 2024 — In addition to this week's NewsBreaks article and the monthly NewsLink Spotlight, Information Today, Inc. (ITI) offers Weekly News Digests that feature recent product news and company announcements. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today.
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hoopla Digital Rolls Out New BingePasses for Music Lovers and Gardeners
hoopla Digital recently created two new BingePasses. “BingePass is a unique innovation from hoopla, offering unlimited access to educational and entertaining collections of streaming content and platforms for seven days with just one borrow. Over the past year, BingePass borrows have increased by 54% and title circulations through BingePass have increased 158%,” hoopla reports. There are more than 20 available.hoopla partnered with medici.tv, “the world’s premier resource for classical music programming” to launch the medici.tv BingePass. It has a video-on-demand catalog featuring “1,500 concerts, 350 operas, 150 ballets, 1,300 documentaries, 250 master classes, and 550 jazz performances.” Events are streamed live from venues such as Carnegie Hall and the Paris Opera. The platform is accessible in English, French, Spanish, or Russian, and individual performances are subtitled. hoopla partnered with the All3Media International production and distribution group to launch the Gardening with Monty Don BingePass. “Monty Don is the UK’s foremost garden writer and broadcaster. Now, a selection of his acclaimed family-friendly gardening content is accessible … [to] patrons of participating libraries,” hoopla shares. It features 300-plus episodes across four series, such as Gardener’s World and My Dream Farm.
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Brandi Scardilli
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